Editor and contributing author for IVN. B.A. in Government from Claremont McKenna College. Born and raised in San Diego. Registered Independent who leans libertarian on most issues.
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According to an official Treasury Department report to Congress, total U.S. public debt will hit nearly $20 trillion by 2015. The report states that the ratio of total public debt to GDP will rise to a staggering 102% over the same period. A CNBC article listed the following expenditures
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California's pivotal June primary is here, and CAIVN is covering all the latest news stories. Much is at stake as voters take to the polls to decide a number of critical races and game-changing ballot propositions. Stay tuned to the latest updates on our Independent Report feature on
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Daily Kos recently hosted an article criticizing IVN's self-proclaimed independent status. In the June 2 piece, "Pragmatus" claims to expose the California Independent Voter Project as a fraud. However, upon closer examination, these claims are factually deficient. In the article, Pragmatus writes, "At first their
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Osama Bin Laden has repeatedly expressed his primary intent: to bankrupt America. Sadly, his methodology has caused the United States to spend over $1 trillion on the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Originally, the Bush administration predicted Iraq would cost about $60 billion. In just seven years, the war
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As the European debt contagion continues to rattle world markets, some wonder if the United States will soon be facing a similar predicament. Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland, all of whom have been downgraded by credit rating agencies, possess budget deficit to GDP ratios of approximately 9-14%. These excessive debt
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At a May 6 Catholic Community Conference in Washington DC, Speaker Pelosi openly touted Jesus Christ, "The Word Made Flesh", as the inspiration for her public policies. CNS News reports a couple of her more powerful statements: “And that Word," Pelosi said, "is, we have to
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In light of onerous ballot signature requirements for Decline to State candidates, the California Independent Voter Project is challenging the state legislature to remove these unfair barriers that shield the two-party system from legitimate competition. While CAIVP posits that Proposition 14, the open primary initiative, will provide a long-term fix,
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Of the 535 members of Congress, only 2 are Independents. This represents a meager 0.4%, while polls continue to reveal that 35-40% of Americans consider themselves to be Independents, unaffiliated with either major party. Over the last thirty years, a time period in which Republicans and Democrats have added
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Following in the footsteps of George W. Bush, President Obama has requested another $33 billion of "emergency", off-budget spending on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. As a presidential candidate, Obama often criticized President Bush's chronic use of supplemental war spending bills, which added to the national
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Dr. Paul set two, one-day internet fundraising records in 2007. He was the only GOP presidential candidate to warn of an imminent economic crisis. He was the only GOP candidate to even acknowledge that the United States was already mired in a recession in 2007/2008. When the financial collapse
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Less than three weeks before the June 8 primary, support for Proposition 14 continues to rise. In a PPIC survey of 2,003 likely voters in California, 60% support the state constitutional amendment, while 27% oppose and 13% remain undecided. Support for the open primary initiative has risen another 4
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Likely 2012 Republican Presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, claims that Islamic terrorism is a mortal threat to America and must be decisively defeated over the next ten years or so. While Gingrich supports a pre-emptive, offensive-based war policy, America's $13 trillion debt and psychologically strained military should cause critical